​Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.  

​Honda wants in on the lucrative energy storage market. This week it began producing batteries destined for data centers, not driveways.  

​The autonomous vehicle space is starting to feel like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick is back building a robotics company, and the talent wars and capital are heating up the same way they did the first time around. The money’s flowing back, and it’s the people who lived through that first wave who are building the next one.  […]  

​The nine-year-old scooter and bike-share company has said it needs the funds to help pay down around $1 billion in liabilities.  

​Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.  

​Google’s 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for more apps.  

​Sony will stop producing physical discs for all new PlayStation games beginning in 2028, as the company embraces an all-digital future.  

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​Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.